• An Englishwoman in America
    Given the choice of becoming a nurse, secretary, or teacher in England while waiting for Mr Right, UUFE’s Carol Meredith came instead to?America at the height of the Vietnam War and civil unrest. Carol talks about living and being UU in the USA and the UK, her work with La Leche League and in social services, ...
  • I?m Thinking of Moving to the Netherlands
    ~??Ann Davis My recent trip to the Netherlands reawakened my appreciation northern European folks. It has been a long time since I traveled outside of the US. It was a pleasant deja vu from childhood trips and residence in Germany. ?I experienced a brief but intense ?fling,? with the Dutch people, and it was intoxicating, a ...
  • Your Transformation is less than two blocks away
    UUFE’s Gayle Scroggs talks about depression, accepting herself as loving and deserving of love, and the revelation that grew from the?sidewalk. ?Taking time to see beauty in all things. Adapted from Gayle’s?March 2016 Flower Communion talk. ?Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have ...
  • Death with Dignity and Daughters
    UUFE’s Sally Woodall celebrates the life and death of her mother with joy and laughter. Adapted from Sally’s May 2016 Flower Communion talk.   Early December 2013, Mother developed some sort of glitch in her esophagus, which made it difficult to swallow, and put her at risk for aspiration pneumonia. She also occasionally produced thick, glue-like mucus that ...
  • Never met a Third Generation UU? Here, meet two.
    UUFE’s Dave Gibbons answers The Five Big Questions. ?And talks about growing up UU without his father, finding another UU – Gwynn – who changed his life, and raising two more UUs – Abbey and Rebecca. ?And about still raising himself.   UU liFE: ?Where were you raised, and how? Dave: ?I consider Media, Pennsylvania my home town. ...
  • UU liFE visits the ancestral home of Peter Paul
    Searching for answers to UU liFE’s Five Big Questions, we visited the ancestral home of Peter Paul. ?More precisely … we found it in Google Street View. ?And we googled the Shakespere Society of Philadelphia. ?And we captured a few words from Peter himself.   UU liFE:? Where were you raised, and how ? Peter:? I was the ...
  • Just Raising Good People
    UUFE’s Colleen Ronning answers the Five Big Questions. ? And talks about getting the first degree, raising kids in a Darwinian way, being unsure and adjusting, and sharing The Gift of Pots and Pans. Where were you raised, and how? I grew up on suburban Long Island NY in the house where my father was literally born.? ...
  • Mark Twain answers UU liFE’s Five Big QuestionsMark Twain answers UU liFE's Five Big Questions
    UUFE?s Dwayne Eutsey at the mic:? On?raising kids, how to pray?to the Greek gods and get results, and the time he met Mark Twain. UU liFE: ?Where were you raised, and how? Dwayne: ?I was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and raised in Aberdeen, Maryland, from 1964 through 1972. Then I spent a year in Long ...
  • From 60 to Zero in 10 Seconds
    UUFE’s Mary Young answers The 5 Big Questions and talks about quitting cold turkey, growing up in segregated Virginia, how she fell in with the Quakers, and the NASCAR dream. (And… Don’t miss the Paris chase at the end!) UU liFE: Where were you raised, and how? Mary: I was raised in Lynchburg, Va., and later in the ...
  • Character Counts. So Does a Full Beard.
    UUFE’s Andrew Southworth is a Character Counts coach and is a founder of Cover Your Chin for Charity, which?raises funds for??Kids, Vets, and Pets?. ?Check out the video. UU Life: ?Where were you raised, and how? Andrew: ?I was born in Flint, Michigan, and moved to the Easton Shore in 1981 when I was 7. I ...